Posted on 06/23/2007 11:15:50 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bush vows permanent ban on future illegal migrants Jun 23 01:49 PM US/Eastern President George W. Bush promised Saturday to permanently bar future illegal immigrants from the United States as he renewed his push for immigration reform, a centerpiece of his domestic agenda.
A revised reform package was reintroduced in the Senate this past week after its predecessor failed on June 7 to garner enough votes to cut off debate and move for final passage.
The collapse of the first proposal has prompted a personal intervention by the president, who went to Capitol Hill to plead for giving the bill a second chance.
But while he has succeeded in putting the proposal back on the Senate agenda, the legislation is facing strong opposition from both Republicans and Democrats, who argue that granting legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants will only encourage more people to sneak across the poorly guarded border.
In his weekly radio address, Bush sought to address these concerns, revealing for the first time that under the revised proposal, people crossing a US border illegally will not only be deported, but never allowed to enter the United States again.
"Under this bill, those caught crossing illegally will be permanently barred from returning to the United States on a work or tourist visa," the president stated.
He went on to assure Americans the new bill puts border enforcement first.
The measure contains 4.4 billion dollars to help the US Border Patrol hire more agents, build additional fencing, purchase infrared cameras and other technologies that help intercept illegal aliens.
"Only after these enforcement tools are in place will certain other parts of the bill go into effect," Bush said.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Agree.
What constitutes a legitimate reason for a revolution? My answer to that would be: when the issue threatens the destruction of a country and all legal and reasonable efforts to correct the problem meet failure.
We will all lose with a revolution. As it is, American citizens have succeeded, so far, to keep this bill from passing. Proponents of the bill have lost all credibility; nothing they say in it's favor, e.g., Bush's promise of a permanent ban on illegals, only reinforces our disbelief. His carrot and stick approach is pathetic, ridiculous.
His presidency ends in Jan. '09. The "permanent ban" promise has a short life, if it even were to get a life.
To repeat 2ndDivisionVet
Is there anyone here who believes a word of this?
Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121
White House comments: (202) 456-1111
Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep
Find your US Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Call, Phone, Fax and voice your disproval,
These “other parts” include a guest worker program that illegal immigrants currently in the United States would be able to join by applying for a renewable “Z” visa and paying fines.
Bush stated the above in the story above. It greatly troubles me. What are the “other parts of the bill that will go into effect? When and who decides the Z-Viss is s go? More hidden agenda. I for one DO NOT TRUST them! BUMP
Though I'm in a northern state, the do-nothing-to-stop-it attitude of the federal gov't in regard to illegal aliens infuriates me. I sympathize with those living in border states who also object.
But then there are those who are ok with illegal infiltration. The border states of Texas, California and New Mexico provide in-state tuition to illegals, in effect, favoring their "rights" over those of U.S. citizens.
Of course you are right. I know we have to stop the flow from everywhere.
That is just it, we have laws on the books that they don't enforce or fund now.
What makes us think they will enforce and fund future bills that become law?
Revelations 21: "...and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life."
No, I don’t think your posts, either of them, need a sarcasm tag. Maybe a “bitter reality” tag for anyone who thinks you might be joking.
I DONT BUY IT.
Construction wages are down a third from fifteen years ago and real estate has tripled. I wonder why? /s
That's how I look at it all. And, at least for now, Ron Paul's got my vote. He wants nothing to do with the Council on Foreign Relations, the NAU, the trans-corridor, or any other globalist agenda. If there's enough of us doing our part, maybe something will change.
Because we don't think or act like him. He's a con....he's even conned the con artists. I say he should be booted, too.
We're about right there.
Sad situation we're looking at. Very sad, indeed.
TEAR DOWN THAT WALL, MR. PRESIDENT!!
A liars, and those who mislead others, will be held to account....all of them, whether or not their names are written in the book of life.
“Construction wages are down a third from fifteen years ago and real estate has tripled. I wonder why?”
It is amazing to me how much *GREED* has come into the lives of so many, here, in our country.
I know a man in our little town who built a two million + dollar house, with landscaping straight out of Better Homes and Gardens. He brags that he built (and landscaped) it for way under one million - thanks to the illegals he hired to do the work.
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